London has been battered by 50mph winds that have felled trees and caused travel chaos. Powerful gusts swept across the capital as the Met Office issued a yellow "be aware" weather alert for most of the country.

Baroness King of Bow says the overcrowding in the House of Lords has got so bad that it’s becoming a safety hazard. “I fell down in one of the corridors recently because I stumbled over a cluster of mobility scooters,” she tells me. “I thought someone had put their leg out and tripped me.

So the right-to-die man, Tony Nicklinson, has had his wish: he’s dead. It’s a funny phrase, when you think about it: if there’s one right we’re all guaranteed, the human right that trumps all others, it’s the right to die. The only question is whether we wait our turn or anticipate the inexorable workings of nature.